Honorary Faculty
The Sanger Institute has an Honorary Faculty of researcher from other research centres. Our Honorary Faculty collaborate closely with teams at the Sanger Institute to answer a range of research questions.
This page provides a list of our Honorary Faculty with links to their profiles.
Helen V Firth - DECIPHER and Deciphering Developmental Disorders (DDD)
Helen Firth is a Consultant Clinical Geneticist at Cambridge University Hospitals Trust who is interested in the
application of new genomic technologies to improve the diagnosis of severe developmental disorders.
Helen's profile.
Paul Flicek - Genome informatics
Paul Flicek is a Team Leader at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory's European Bioinformatics Institute where
he heads the Vertebrate Genomics Team, a combined service and research group interested in the large-scale
infrastructure required for modern bioinformatics including storage and access methods for high throughput sequencing
data.
Paul's profile.
Gad Frankel - Cell and molecular biology of bacterial infection
Gad Frankel is Professor of Molecular Pathogenesis at Imperial College London, specializing in mechanisms of
bacterial colonisation and infection, with particular interest in biology of bacterial proteins that allow take over
of a host cell (translocated bacterial effectors). Gad has been collaborating with Gordon Dougan for many years and
is affiliated with the Microbial Pathogenesis group.
Gad's profile.
Chris Newbold - Malaria
Chris Newbold is Professor of Tropical Medicine at the University of Oxford, specialising in work on parasite immune
evasion, pathogenesis and genomics.
Chris's profile.
Willem H Ouwehand - Platelets and atherothrombosis
Willem Ouwehand is Reader in Platelet Biology and Genetics and a clinical researcher at the University of Cambridge
School of Clinical Medicine and Honorary Faculty Member at the Sanger Institute.
Willem's profile.
Sharon Peacock - Bacterial diseases
Sharon Peacock is Professor of Clinical Microbiology at the University of Cambridge and works on a range of bacterial
infectious diseases, most notably those caused by Staphylococcus aureus, Burkholderia pseudomallei,
Leptospira spp. and rickettsia.
Sharon's profile.
Samuli Ripatti - Cardiovascular disease and metabolic diseases
Samuli Ripatti is a FIMM-EMBL group leader at Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland FIMM where he heads a Genetic
Epidemiology and Biostatistics group focusing on genetic variation and its relation to human metabolism and
cardiovascular diseases.
Samuli's profile.
John Sulston - Science ethics
John Sulston is a part-time Professor at the University of Manchester, where he chairs the institute for Science
Ethics and Innovation.
John's profile.
